Howard Hughes (center) studying diagrams for the Flying Boat with two unidentified men.

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Fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat being transported from a hangar by truck. The moving truck and rig have signs from Star House Movers, Inc., of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Groups of people stand by to watch.

Overhead shot of the ranch house and pool at Spring Mountain Ranch, outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. The property was purchased by Howard Hughes from Vera Krupp as a house for his wife, Jean Peters, who never followed her husband to Las Vegas.

Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark New Jersey Airport. Hughes set a coast-to-coast speed record. A bank of microphones and a movie camera are seen beside the plane.

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Dick Hannah, standing at far right, at Howard Hughes telephone press conference at the Universal-Sheraton Hotel in North Hollywood, California, January 7, 1972. Hannah stands before a table with various members of the media, including Gladwin Hill of the New York Times, Wayne Thomas of the Chicago Tribune, and Marvin Miles of the Los Angeles Times, seated behind microphones.

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Howard Hughes standing with an unidentified reporter next to the second XF-11, after landing in New York.

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The Hughes Flying Boat and workers at Pier E on the Long Beach Harbor in California, 1947.

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Howard Hughes shakes hands with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Roosevelt's office, after Hughes received the Harmon Aviator Trophy. Roosevelt is sitting behind his desk. Several unidentified men are standing by.

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Interior of the Hughes Tool Company, at Second and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas. Shown is the lab where the trench mining drill was developed.

Blimp used to promote the motion picture "The Outlaw," produced by Howard Hughes' RKO Productions, January 1950. Advertising reads, "The Outlaw. Kept off the screen for 3 years, it's coming at last! Jane Russell."